Impact assessment: from theory to practice Jakupec, Viktor and Kelly, Max 2016, Impact assessment: from theory to practice. In Jakupec, Viktor and Kelly, Max (ed), Assessing the impact of foreign aid : value for money and aid for trade, Elsevier, London, Eng., pp.227-237. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Impact assessment: from theory to practice Author(s) Jakupec, Viktor orcid.org/0000-0003-2657-5833 Kelly, Max orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-5259 Title of book Assessing the impact of foreign aid : value for money and aid for trade Editor(s) Jakupec, Viktor Kelly, Max Publication date 2016 Start page 227 End page 237 Total pages 10 Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication London, Eng. Summary Foreign aid is intended to be a major contributor to poverty reduction. However, significant questions arise as to the capacity for development funding to contribute to human development, through service provision, through advocacy, through actions and interventions that change power relations, change the social and institutional arrangements that reinforce inequality, threaten or reproduce well-being, and prevent the fulfillment of human rights. In conjunction with questions about what aid “does,” there is equal focus on how it does it. Questions of efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability, social license to operate, relevance, and many others are all embedded in contemporary aid discourse and practice. The aim of this volume was to contribute to a critical understanding of Impact Assessment (IA) clearly informed by contemporary development theory and practice. There is a significantly increasing push for impact assessment, across the whole aid architecture. This is exacerbated by a much stronger focus on value for money, and accountability – to taxpayers specifically in the context of public funds, and donors in an increasingly competitive NGO environment. As was noted by many authors, since the GFC, a significant number of donor governments have reduced or are considering funding reduction for bilateral aid agencies and their contributions to multilateral aid agencies. At the same time they imposed a more stringent and rigorous requirement focusing on “aid-for-trade” and “value-for-money” strategies. There is a drive to ensure the positive impacts of the grant or loan in a sustainable manner. ISBN 0128036605 9780128036600 Edition 1st Language eng Field of Research 140202 Economic Development and Growth 160505 Economic Development Policy Socio Economic Objective 940302 International Aid and Development HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter ERA Research output type B Book chapter Copyright notice ©2016, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30079658 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Publisher URL Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 18 Nov 2015, 13:58:21 EST Thu, 19 Nov 2015, 04:02:54 EST Sat, 05 Dec 2015, 05:14:26 EST Wed, 06 Jul 2016, 10:09:22 EST Wed, 06 Jul 2016, 10:10:18 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 11:36:39 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 423 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 18 Nov 2015, 13:58:21 EST

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